The 25th Annual Research Workshop on Strategic and Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Auditing, and Tax will be held on Saturday August 6, 2015 in New York, NY. The Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association (http://aaahq.org/set) sponsors the Workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the AAA Annual Meeting, August 6-10, 2016.

RESEARCH DOMAIN

Papers are welcome on any topic relating to strategic and emerging technologies applied to any area of accounting, applying any research methodology including design science (DSR). Examples of research presented at recent workshops: text/data analytics, REA, continuous assurance, fraud detection, evidential reasoning, information modeling, genetic programming, neural networks, natural language processing, intelligent databases, intelligent agents and object oriented computing, XML, XBRL.

AWARDS

Two Best Paper awards will be given: one for the best paper submitted by a doctoral student and one for the best paper submitted by a faculty member.

GUIDELINES

• Working papers that have not been accepted for publication are eligible for submission. Early stage research and doctoral proposals from doctoral students are particularly encouraged. Authors from anywhere in the world are welcome.
• Papers will be considered for the SET Section Journal, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA), at the option of the author. Please indicate if you would like your paper to be considered for JETA publication.
• Authors of accepted papers are expected to pay associated registration fees. The registration fees are waived for doctoral student members of the SET Section presenting their research.

KEY DATES

2 May 2016 - Email either (1) extended abstract with paper title, name of authors and description of approximately 300 words, or (2) the full paper to all members of the program committee below with “SET Research Workshop” in the subject line. All submissions must be rtf or MSWord format – no PDFs.

16 May 2016 - Decisions emailed to authors.

7 July 2016 - Full papers due.

PROGRAM COMMITEE

Barbara Lamberton, lambertonb@aol.com

Ingrid Fisher, ifisher@albany.edu

JP Krahel, jkrahel@loyola.edu

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The SET Research Workshop acknowledges and appreciates the support provided by CaseWare IDEA, Inc., and the SET Section of the American Accounting Association.